“Aging photos of very young children from a single photo is considered the most difficult of all scenarios, so we wanted to focus specifically on this very challenging case,” says Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. The new technique is the first that works with variable lighting, expressions, and poses, researchers say. New age-progression software generates images of a young child’s face as it ages through a lifetime, and does so in less than a minute.
